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The Trump administration says that 100million Americans will have received the Covid Vaccine - or what some Trump supporters now call "the Trump vaccine" - by February:

#gript https://gript.ie/trump-admin-well-have-vaccinated-100m-americans-by-february/
Referring to the ongoing EU negotiations with the UK, Murphy said he is “upset to think I too could be linked with the final blow to finish off many of the small independent family run fishing vessels around our coastline” and that Ireland is a “sacrificial lamb on the negotiating tables of Europe”.

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https://gript.ie/fishermen-ireland-eu-brexit-negotiations/
CLICK THE LINK TO VOTE: With other leaders offering to take the vaccine on TV, we ask you:

Would you be more confident in the vaccine if Micheál Martin and Leo Varadkar got it on live television?

https://gript.ie/poll-vaccine-martin-varadkar-live-television/

VOTE in our Poll online and leave your comments

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TRSI 171 - It's not like anyone actually reads Dail debates

Is it fair to say the government voted against paying student nurses? How is the Tavistock judgement being report in Irish media; it should not be national news that a foreigner said something negative about Ireland; and a new NGO promises to free us of the far-right.

https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-171-its-not-like-anyone-actually-reads-dail-debates/
Weasel words and sophistry from Amnesty Ireland over the letter they signed last week is nothing new, says John Hamill, who says that Amnesty's attempts to change the laws around political funding features the same tactic:

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https://gript.ie/for-amnesty-ireland-dissembling-and-sophistry-is-a-way-of-life/
PODCAST: Maybe people wouldn't have to live 12 to a room if we'd let developers actually build anything in Dublin; working from home is just the middle stage of a process which ends with your job outsourced to Uzbekistan; and we've been reading the submissions to the Gender Equality Citizen's Assembly, so that you don't have to.

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https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-172-another-ngo-betrays-its-mission/
When an act becomes de-facto compulsory, it is no longer a protest. The people protesting at the weekend were not the players kneeling in the middle of the pitch – they were simply complying. The people protesting were those in the stands, booing.

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https://gript.ie/yes-taking-the-knee-should-be-booed/
"Imagine if Government announced that anybody who had stolen a car in the past year would not only avoid prosecution, but would be allowed to keep the car they stole." Does that sound mad? Congratulations, you now understand the amnesty for migrants

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https://gript.ie/amnesty-17000-illegal-immigrants-to-be-given-residency-in-ireland/